90 Quotes About Heresy
- Author Robert G. Ingersoll
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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever.
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- Author Rajesh`
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On another Earth, atheism ruled and religious heretics fought to prove God's existence. But they were not burned at the stake. Instead, they were asked to carry out scientific research and present reports to back their claims. The reports were then burned at the stake.
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- Author Carl Trueman
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Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.
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- Author Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.
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- Author George MacDonald
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It is the one terrible heresy of the church, that it has always been presenting something else than obedience as faith in Christ.
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- Author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
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- Author William Blake
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The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
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- Author Umberto Eco
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
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